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• VMO2 tops combined mobile and fixed speed ranking

  08-06-2023 17:58
  A report from GWS says VMO2 provides the ‘best combined connectivity’ in the UK when measuring bundled mobile and fixed connections together.
  The report is described as a ‘first of its kind look into digital connectivity as consumers experience it’ and by that it means its methodology is to combine results from mobile and fixed packages into one score, the idea being to see what bundles offer the best performance overall.
  The research was put together over a six month per
  
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• Tickets Alert: City of London beer festival

  08-06-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tickets have gone on sale for the annual Beerfest, which takes place next month in the City of London’s Guildhall Yard.Run by the City of London, this year’s Beerfest will feature more than 35 of the UK’s best beers from 11 top brewers – and takes place on Thursday 6th July from lunchtime through to 9pm.
  Drinkers can book tickets online in advance and get a 10% discount compared to the price of entry on the day.Individual entry package – £16.20 (includes
  
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• BSNL gets $11 billion bailout to facilitate 5G

  08-06-2023 16:51
  The Indian government has approved a third revival package for troubled BSNL worth a total of almost US$11 billion that mainly involves the allocation of spectrum for 4G and 5G mobile services.
  The Union Cabinet shared details of the 890.47 billion-rupee ($10.8 billion) package, which it claims will see BSNL emerge as “a stable telecom service provider focused on providing connectivity to remotest parts of India.”
  If it feels like we have heard that somewhere before, that’s pro
  
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• Ofcom joins generative AI debate but adds little

  08-06-2023 16:28
  Not wanting to be left out, UK watchdog Ofcom has shared its thoughts on what AI could mean for society and what it is doing about it.
  Rather than proffer anything particularly original on the subject – or point out that ChatGPT and its ilk aren’t actually intelligent, they merely reconstitute other people’s ideas – Ofcom has re-hashed many of the warnings that have gone before.
  “Voice clones created by generative AI tools could be used to scam people over the phone
  
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• Comic sketches of London’s architecture in the Barbican Library

  08-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The foyer of the Barbican Library is currently host to an exhibition of sketches, many humourous, of architecture by Anna Gibb.
  Anna uses the act of drawing as a tool to help her to dissect the built environment, and the common threads found in the past, present and future of architecture.There’s a strong sense of Heath Robinson in some of the sketches, such as what if London Bridge was rebuilt today to its older format with buildings along the bridge? There’s quite a bit of humour a
  
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• A global satellite blackout is a real threat — can hackers help?

  08-06-2023 15:19
  Lines between military, civilian and commercial communications have blurred, creating vulnerabilities
  
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• Italian unions hail 80% participation in telco worker strike

  08-06-2023 13:51
  A national strike of Italy’s entire telecoms sector on Wednesday recorded participation levels of 80%, the country’s trade unions trumpeted, repeating their objections to structural separation in the industry.
  Thousands of telecoms employees from all over the country amassed in Rome’s Piazza Santi Apostoli with the message ‘Riprendiamoci il futuro’ – ‘Let’s take back the future,’ that is – union SLC-CGIL revealed.
  “If this sector
  
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• NEC SaaS promises up to 10-fold reduction in RAN energy use

  08-06-2023 13:42
  Japanese vendor NEC reckons its new software-as-a-service (SaaS) will help telcos tackle the tricky task of cutting power consumption.
  Called Aspire NetZero, it’s an application that autonomously analyses and predicts traffic patterns, and then automatically configures – and continually adjusts – network performance parameters to strike the ideal balance between energy consumption and customer experience. The solution is vendor-agnostic, and compatible with 3G, 4G, and 5G netwo
  
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• BT and GSMA reckon UK drone industry is lagging

  08-06-2023 13:33
  A report from BT and GSMA argues new regulations are needed to help the UK drone industry keep pace with the rest of the world.
  BT commissioned the report which was carried out by GSMA Intelligence, and it’s primary purpose is to lay out recommendations ‘which could help guarantee the UK is a leader in the drone economy if acted on within the next year.’
  It contains a ‘drone readiness index’, which ranks countries according to how well their drone ecosystems are com
  
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• Meta launches WhatsApp Channels, which seems a bit like Twitter

  08-06-2023 12:59
  The artist formerly known as Facebook has created a way for people to follow and get updates from other accounts through the WhatsApp messaging service.
  The new feature is called Channels and is described as ‘a one-way broadcast tool for admins to send text, photos, videos, stickers, and polls.’ So you find a Channel to subscribe to and then receive stuff the owner of that channel sends out. In that respect it seems pretty similar to social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter.
  
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• EE has dropped over 600 street-level mobile small cell sites in the UK

  08-06-2023 12:18
  UK operator EE has deployed a ton of small cells in towns and cities in the UK designed to give its 4G coverage a shot in the arm.
  Birmingham, Sheffield and Brighton are amongst the latest areas to be kitted out with EE’s small cells, designed to increase 4G capacity and reduce congestion in busy areas which are often plonked onto existing street infrastructure, such as telephone boxes, lamp posts, CCTV columns and BT’s Street Hubs.
  A year ago it announced it had set up 200 of the th
  
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• Maximizing Opportunities, Minimizing Risks: The Reality of Data Sovereignty & Cloud Computing for CSPs

  08-06-2023 11:37
  Since the inception of cloud computing in the mid-2000s, leading companies in tech, finance, as well as large MNCs (multi-national companies) have led the adoption of cloud, reaped huge benefits and proved the value of its wide adoption in the industrialized economies. While many organizations around the world, especially in emerging economies, are just starting on the journey. It is also noteworthy that global top clouds only cover a small portion of economies, e.g. global top 4 cloud providers
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: St Olave Silver Street, EC2

  08-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a pocket park that sits next to the busy London Wall road, but still manages to look rather pleasant to sit in despite its location.From the name you’ve probably already realised, it’s the site of a former church that John Stow described as “a small thing, and without any note-worthie monuments”. The first reference to the church, in the twelfth century, refers to it as “St Olave de Mukewellestrate”, and is likely named after King Olaf, later Saint Ola
  
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